Paul Hartman schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Justin <jus...@j-schmitz.net> wrote: >> Grant schrieb: >>>>> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One >>>>> netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to >>>>> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's >>>>> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook >>>>> not excruciatingly slow? >>>>> >>>>> - Grant >>>>> >>>> I've got an Acer One for my father. I don't know the exact type; it is >>>> the one with the 8GB SSD. >>>> >>>> I found it quiet usable, installed Gentoo with a minimal KDE3 on it. >>>> Compiled with -Os, of course. RAM usage is below 256MB most of the time. >>>> The only things I didn't get to work are 3D acceleration and the SSD >>>> card slots but I haven't invested much time into it. >>>> >>>> The slowest part of the system is the SSD. It really slows things done >>>> when they are loaded for the first time (for example the HTML part of >>>> Konqueror takes 3s to load AFTER Konqueror itself came up). >>>> >>>> The rest of the system is pretty fast for my expectations.I compiled >>>> most things in a chroot on my Celeron notebook (2 or 3 times the speed) >>>> before moving it over but I really found compiling not _that_ slow. Its >>>> usable for most regular updates and even kernels and such alike. For >>>> larger packages, I mount an NFS share on /var/tmp/portage because I >>>> don't want to wear down the SSD. >>>> >>>> Other tips: >>>> Use ext2 FS. You don't want the journalling to cost you even more >>>> performance and wear down the SSD. >>>> >>>> I wouldn't use laptop-mode. You don't want it to bog down the system >>>> when it decides to flush its write cache. >>>> >>>> No syslog, it will only wear down the disk with many small write cycles. >>>> >>>> Use the noop IO scheduler (boot parameter elevator=noop). There is no >>>> need for a scheduler on an SSD. >>>> >>>> ArchLinux also recommends deactivating DRI ('Option "DRI" "0"' in >>>> xorg.conf) to free up 32MB of memory. >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>> Thanks guys, these are the kinds of tips I need. I really want this >>> thing to work out so I can switch over to one. Lemme see if I've got >>> this: >>> >>> 1. run xfce4 (already do) >>> 2. compile with -Os (I was using -O2) >>> 3. use ext2 (I was using ext3) >>> 4. don't use laptop-mode (I didn't know it existed) >>> 5. no syslog (does this mean don't even emerge a system logger like >>> metalog?) >>> 6. use elevator=noop at boot >>> 7. deactivate DRI >>> 8. upgrade RAM to the max >> 9. use distcc > > Won't that require another machine using the same CPU arch? Or can > cross-compiler be setup on the remote distcc box? I am using it cross x86 and amd64, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml > (I don't even know > if GCC has an atom-specific CPU or if it is using something more > generic) CFLAGS="-march=prescott -mssse3" nearly same as core2 in 32bit mode
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